The Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, Vermont is an operating partner with the adjacent Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park sharing certain logistical functions. This is a relatively new arrangement (last five years) and would be worth checking into.
Billings Farm & Museum
http://www.billingsfarm.org/
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park
http://www.nps.gov/mabi/
Good Luck!
Garet Livermore
Director of Education
New York State Historical Association
Cooperstown, NY
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On Thu, 14 Nov 20http:02 11:40:49
Richard Urban wrote:
>Andrew,
>
>Talk to the folks at Philadelphia's Independence Vistors Center
>http://www.independencevisitorcenter.org
>
>"The Independence Visitor Center Corporation is a Pennsylvania non-profit
>501(c) 3 organization that operates the Visitor Center in cooperation with the
>efforts of the National Park Service, the Greater Philadelphia Tourism
>Marketing Corporation, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, the City
>of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
>
>-Richard Urban
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>On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:29:15 -0500 Andrew Schuricht
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a project that is set up this
>> way: The Las Vegas Valley
>> Water District, which is a public utility, has
>> provided funding and a site
>> for the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, a 501c3.
>> The Preserve is building a
>> visitor center, a botanical garden and a system
>> of interpretive trails on
>> the site. They are set to open in 2005.
>>
>> To complicate matters, the Nevada State Museum,
>> an agency of the State of
>> Nevada, has received $35 million to build a new
>> building on the Water
>> District site adjacent to the Springs Preserve.
>> It will probably not be
>> open by 2005.
>>
>> The two institutions will share parking, public
>> areas, some infrastructure
>> and most likely the ticketing/entrance area.
>>
>> Can anybody think of examples of other
>> institutions that have
>> been "roommates" like this? I'm wondering about
>> things like ticketing
>> system sharing, public area maintenance
>> policies and other business-type
>> questions--and I need a brain to pick...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrew Schuricht
>> Consultant
>> Las Vegas Springs Preserve Project
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